Conder101

Struck between a die and a hub possibly?

Thanks for the file Roger.

But there are a lot of collectors that will look at the label and not the coin and they WILL pay the MS-64 price. So he isn't "stuck" the greater fool theory still works, at least until the slab becomes well enough known that greater fools are harder to find. At which point it gets sent back for regrading. If the grade drops he get compensated under the guarantee, if it doesn't drop it has new "clothing" and serial number and the greater fool race begins again. Is this a good thing, no probably not, but it is how the real world tends to work.

Right now you can buy the "real deal" cheaper. You can buy an unc 1881 CC dollar for about the same as a 2021 CC (Oddly the much more common 1882 - 84 coins aren't much cheaper, they used to be considerably less than the 81)

Japanese arcade token, for pachinko machines.

That group from Andy and Tyler is an actual "thing" the mint deliberately set aside a group of the last boxes of the type 1 and the first boxes of the type 2's just for specific sale to the distribution group so they could make up these sets.

Counterstamps exist for each of the Apollo missions, they were all privately done, not an official issue.

Considering this coin looks like it is unc and possibly a SMS an extended soak just might hurt the coin. The reason an oil soak can sometimes help with verdigris is because it is slightly acidic and the acid works to break down the verdigris. But those acids can also have an effect on the copper itself. Old copper with an EXTENDED olive oil soak can start to develop a slight pinkish color. But those coins have a protective patina, this coin does not.

Extreme examples are more common in 1982 and 83, after that they improved their processes and extreme examples become much less common.

American gold eagle, and why ? To see if you really could make a mark on a gold coin by biting it. I found out I could but it was quite difficult. And I was definitely afraid I would break a tooth before I managed it. So if you were biting a gold coin you really couldn't or shouldn't expect to make tooth marks on it So why would people have done it (if they ever actually did) They would have to be checking for something even softer that WOULD show bitemarks easily. That would be a plated lead fake.

You were the one encouraging him to spend HIS money on sending it to a TPG not me. I wouldn't do that because as soon as I saw it I was thinking "fake" and I don't encourage people to throw good money after bad. If I thought there was even a slight chance it was real. And moneybags? The reason I know as much as I do is because I DON'T have money, so I have had to supplement what I do have with more background knowledge than many. In many cases I can't afford the coins, but I can get and read the books.

If they gave me one I never saw it. Perhaps the order number?

Nor will your wife when she finds out what you spent on that coin/gun. Which is why so many collectors quit in their teens and come back to the hobby for good in their 40's or 50's, kids are gone, house is paid off, and you are settled into your career making decent money that can now spent on "luxuries".

Yo can make grits from hominy, hominy is corn that is soaked in lye to soften and remove the outer husk, Then dry it, grind it into meal and you can make "hominy grits", but grits can be made with regular corn meal or hominy meal.

Proof 2021 ASE's with reverse that was discontinued in 2007. But they might fool someone who didn't look at them closely.

Stuffing double eagles into dead rats and tossing them away then recovering them later was done at the US San Francisco Mint too wasn't it?

Probably not too well. I bought the autographed version but received no information about how to download the PDF. Didn't even know it was available until you mentioned it.

I'm not sure which one did it, but one of the top firms did slab some chocolate coins as a Sample of advertising slab.

The advantage on the complicated equipment they acquired is that much of it has to be maintained which means spare parts and knowledge of how to maintain. Once the parts go, so does the equipment, and for things like the Blackhawks I'm sure those the Taliban won't be able to use themselves (You've never flown? Here's a complex helicopter go see what you can do with it) And even if they do have Afghan military who can use them they probably won't be usable for long, once again due to maintenance needs. Most of the smaller less complex stuff though they will be able to use and maintain just fine.

But in the real world you would get melt value for the Barber, Mercury and silver Roosevelt and maybe 40 cents for the Indian.

Impaired proof? It's a 1973 Philadelphia dime

If it's only money (HIS money) then why don't you foot the cost? After all it's only money.

Don't know anything about the ring but the tetradrachm definitely looks like a "tourist" fake. and as such if the ring came from the same source it is most likely a fake as well.

I suspect if you are in the south they call it grits, in the north they call it Mush. As near as I can tell they are the same thing, a boiled cornmeal porridge With grits the cornmeal may be ground a little coarser. Grits tend to be eaten as the porridge often with sugar or syrup, while mush can be eaten that way but is often allowed to set up then sliced, fried in butter, and eaten as a breakfast food with maple or other type of syrup.

Can you handle a standard keyboard? I don't like the keys on the laptop much either, so I have it on a slight raised platform and I has a USB full size keyboard plugged into it. Gives me the advantages of a lap top (enough power and portable if I need it to be, and usually cheaper) and the typing ease of a desktop.